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Streisand said funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting should continue and that House Speaker Newt Gingrich's notion that private donations could provide continued quality arts programming was incorrect...
Schall's study group will examine House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America." Schall said he will be tracking the progress of legislative changes during the Republican Congress's first 100 days...
...would fall to a 40-year low next year. To counter this, Clinton proposed two hikes of 45 cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle. House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- a former economics professor -- said bluntly, "I personally am very skeptical about it and think it will destroy jobs, especially for minority teenagers." House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas has said he would like to abolish the minimum wage altogether. "The White House is looking to appeal...
Twice last year House Speaker Newt Gingrich tried to interfere with the federal regulatory process on behalf of pharmaceutical companies that contributed to the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Associated Press reports. The foundation has close ties to Gingrich, supporting a televised college course he teaches. Last September, Gingrich wrote White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, insisting that FDA should give prompt approval to a home AIDS test made by Direct Access Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Both Direct Access Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson are listed as contributors to the foundation. The amounts or dates of the contributions...
When House GOP caucus chair John Boehner of Ohio took the floor with warnings that Clinton's peso rescue plan was "unfortunate," Gingrich -- who happened to be meeting with Vice President Al Gore -- took the mike: "I think it was very unfortunate to have a member of the leadership come out when the vice president is here being very helpful and very cooperative frankly . . . The president had the courage to do what he was being told by very sophisticated experts was vital to reinforce international markets...